CTC 228 Chapter 7 Review Questions

When a switch receives a frame on a port and floods the frame, what does it do with the frame?

Forwards it out to all other connected ports.

Which PC bus allows you to connect a NIC to your computer easily without powering off?

USB

What should you configure on a switch that's connected to three broadcast domains?

VLANs

Which NIC feature do you need to configure on a thin client?

PXE

Which of the following is found in a routing table? (Choose all that apply)

-Metric -Next Hop

You have two-eight port switches. On each switch, seven stations are connected to ports, and the two switches are connected with the eighth port. How many collision domains are there?

15

Which PC bus uses up to 32 lanes to achieve very high data transfer rates?

PCIe

Which AP feature is useful when you have many quests accessing your network and you don't want them to be able to access the computers of other guests?

AP isolation

What feature should you configure to prevent users on one subnet from accessing the Web server on another subnet?

Access Control Lists

What feature of a switch keeps switching table entries from becoming stale?

Aging time

What feature can you use to wirelessly connect the wired networks in two buildings?

Bridge mode

You just purchased new switches for you company's network. Your junior technicians are doing most of the work connecting switches to workstations and to each other, and you don't want to confuse them by requiring them to use both patch cables and crossover cables. How can you test the switches to determine whether you need both types of cable, and what's the feature for using only one type of cable for all connections?

Connect two switches by using a patch cable. If the connection works, the switch supports auto-MDIX.

Which is the fastest switching method?

Cut-through

If you don;t want wireless clients to view the name of your wireless network, what feature should you use?

Disabling SSID broadcasts

There can be only one MAC address per port in a switching table. True or False?

False

Which of the following accurately describes a distance-vector routing protocol?

It learns from its neighbor

What does it mean if the first 24 bits of a MAC address are 01:00:5E?

Multicast Frame

Which of the following is a characteristic of routing protocols? (Choose all that apply)

Network changes are reflected in the routing table automatically-They add routing table entries dynamically

Which of the following is the best routing solution for a network that includes redundant links?

OSPF

Which of the following is a Layer 3 device?

Router

Which device is used to communicate between broadcast domains?

Router and Switches with VLANs

What feature should you look for in switches that are cabled in such a way that can cause a loop?

Spanning Tree Protocol - STP

Which of the following is considered a Layer 2 device?

Switch

To prevent a wardriver from being able to interpret captured wireless network data, you should enable which of the following?

WPA or WPA2

What does a router do after receiving a frame on one of its interfaces? (Choose all that apply)

a. Deencapsulates the frame to create a packet d. Encapsulates the packet to create a new frame